How do i stop expo from running in the web

Question

I recently started react-native, after installing all dependencies i tried starting my project but when it starts i don"t seem to find the QR code scanner for me to scan with my device anywhere, instead it starts in the browser, it says web Starting Webpack on port 19006 in development mode.

• Expo Webpack █████████████████████████ building (40%) 194/196 modules 2 active node_modules\invariant\browser.js

i ｢wds｣: Project is running at http://0.0.0.0:19006/ i ｢wds｣: webpack output is served from / i ｢wds｣: Content not from webpack is served from C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\expo-cli\node_modules@expo\webpack-config\web-default i ｢wds｣: 404s will fallback to /

. I want expo to run on my device not the browser.

Answer 1

Try

1. Deleting all the metro packages from project_root/node_modules.
2. Run npm install in project_root.
3. Now run expo start again and it should work.

This seems to help in most cases